FRANKLIN TWP. — A fire early today kept the Walmart store here closed into the afternoon.

According to Chief Bradley Patkochis of the Quakertown Fire Company, emergency units were dispatched to the store off Route 513 at 1:10 a.m. for a reported fire in the building.

First arriving units found that the fire in the floral section of the store had been extinguished by the store’s sprinkler system but a moderate smoke condition still existed from the burning plastics.

Firefighters worked for over an hour with fans to clear the smoke from the 100,000 square-foot building, he said. One worker was injured during the fire and received medical care on the scene but was not transported to a hospital.

The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Franklin Township Bureau of Fire Prevention “and is not considered to be suspicious,” Chief Patkochis said. Emergency units were released the scene around 4 a.m.